Yeats painting sells for €1m

A Jack B Yeats painting has sold for €1m after being held for seven decades out of the public eye by the same family.

Yeats painting sells for €1m

A Jack B Yeats painting has sold for €1m after being held for seven decades out of the public eye by the same family.

The spectacular oil painting – titled A Fair Day, Mayo – was painted in 1925 and once hung in the office of Eamon de Valera when he was leader of the newly formed Fianna Fáil.

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